This happens *all the time* in movies like Crawl
Photo: Sergej Radović/© 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation Over the weekend, a friend and I split an edible and saw the movie Crawl, which I can’t recommend highly enough. It has the exact formula of summer blockbuster I love, which is: aggrieved human fights implausibly large animal, and wins. The star of Crawl is Kaya Scodelario, whom I know best for playing the hot and emotionally troubled Effy on Skins.
The trailer doesn’t reveal how Haley escapes this situation, but let me assure you that it is preposterous. Which is fine. The whole point of these movies is for the hero to survive unsurvivable conditions, which is why I like them: I can sleep easy afterward, knowing that I will never put myself in their position. In every summer monster movie I recognize the moment in which I’d quit.
This happens all the time in these movies. People calling sharks “motherfuckers” and whatever, as if they can understand what you’re saying, or take it personally. It’s supposed to help vilify the animal, I think, and solidify Us vs. Them, but it’s really embarrassing if you think about it for more than two seconds. Imagine calling a lion, like, “an idiot.